More online retail – Page 163
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lessons from the September reporting season
A raft of retailers ranging from John Lewis to Argos and spanning food to homewares updated last week. Retail Week examines the picture they paint of retail conditions.
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Opinion
Blog: Rise of the machines
A virtual fitting room brings the benefits of the physical fitting room to the online store, boosting profitability by improving conversion rates and reducing garment returns.
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OpinionNick Bubb's verdict: Asos - a super online story
The old adage of caveat emptor (“let the buyer beware”) sprang immediately to mind when the Bestseller Group began to aggressively build a stake in Asos just over two years ago.
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Opinion
Blog: Creating a connected retailer
We’re about a third of the way through a nine-month project to install a new integrated multichannel solution for footwear specialist Charles Clinkard, including a merchandising system, point of sale, and CRM.
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AnalysisInfographic: Which social networks increase sales for retailers?
Research into social media and retail has shown that Facebook dominates in socially driven shopping, while Pinterest drives the highest average order value.
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OpinionComment: Choosing the right market for cross-border trade
The world is flattening and borders are blurring, opening up a wealth of new opportunity for UK retailers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: New chapter in ebook market as competition builds
Despite the market dominance of Amazon, other retailers are increasingly making a play for a slice of the fast-moving ebook and ereader markets.
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AnalysisSite review: Waitrose Vs Tesco
Mike Spicer Chief executive at Pulse Group, shares his view of good and bad websites.
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OpinionRetail Surgery: How do I avoid competing for the same words on paid searches?
Many of our sub-brands share markets and products. How do we avoid competing for the same words on paid searches, thus pushing up prices?
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OpinionBlog: How Currys is utilising responsive design
Mobile commerce is transforming customer behaviour and retailers must work fast to keep pace. Responsive design is one way to do this.
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OpinionComment: Debenhams sets the standard for retail
Department store group Debenhams took analysts on a tour of its Milton Keynes shop last week.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: Galeries Lafayette aiming for 60m site visitors
French department store group Galeries Lafayette has unveiled plans to make its online business GaleriesLafayette.com the retailer’s second largest ‘store’ after its Boulevard Haussmann flagship in Paris.
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OpinionComment: Beware of online competition
I used to warn potential investors to avoid retailers that were at risk from competition from either hypermarkets or the internet, especially in the UK where hypermarkets were growing rapidly and online shopping already represented 14% of non-food sales by 2011.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Keeping up with the evolution of ecommerce
Ahead of next month’s Retail Week Ecommerce Summit, we speak to some of the event’s key speakers for an early insight into where their online focus lies.
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AnalysisInfographic: iPhone 5 to double time spent shopping
New research, conducted by Conlumino for eBay, has shown that rather than speeding up the shopping process, new technologies will result in UK consumers spending nearly twice as long browsing, researching and comparing prices of items.
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OpinionComment: Invest in your online strategy
At five months pregnant with baby number one, I am the goldmine customer for many retailers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Changes in the distribution centre property market
It’s all go in the distribution centre property market, where dedicated and hybrid logistics models are altering the requirements of retailers, and internet fulfilment are rewriting the rules.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How can shopping centres embrace technology?
Shopping centres and technology at first seemed like adversaries, then uneasy bedfellows, but now they are positively united – or at least they should be.
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OpinionComment: Walmart is quietly becoming quite the mobile hipster
Despite a staggering $444 billion in annual revenue, Walmart has generally been sluggish and conservative, allowing tech innovations to be toyed with by rivals such as Amazon.
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OpinionComment: Sports Direct proves it’s still on a winning track
Sports Direct this week proved itself once again to be a retail gold medallist.